1072. As is evident from the above, the immature researcher puts forward three of life's very greatest and unshakeable truths as a defence for his imperfect behaviour.
But can these great truths free a being from responsibility for his actions?
Do they entitle him to murder his neighbour, commit sex murder or murder with intent to rob?
Is he entitled to persecute, annoy and slander his neighbour with the justification that the neighbour in question has this dark karma or fate coming to him?
And can he in other ways be satisfied by exercising his will on the basis of the same misunderstanding of the unshakeable, eternal truths?
Can he himself live consistently according to the philosophy of life derived from his misunderstanding?
Does he just as readily choose as his spouse the less beautiful being as the more beautiful one?
Does he choose robbery as a way of living just as readily as he chooses an honest occupation?
Does he think that sadism, perversion and tendencies towards sex murder are likewise desirable as talents for the highest ethical refinement and culture?
Can he desist from thanking his neighbour in a situation in which this neighbour has unselfishly saved his life with the justification that his being saved was merely the fulfilment of a perfectly legitimate right, something this neighbour simply owed him?
Can he in all physical situations really satisfy or completely ease his conscience with the justification that "everything is very good", thereby also justifying his actions regardless of what kind of actions they may be?
Can he in the long run with the same justification continue being without any kind of prayer to Providence?
In an unhappy or life-threatening situation are there not forces within him that move in a direction towards the "unknown" for help, when the "known" can provide no help?
Can he likewise be totally devoid of feelings of gratitude to a providence in situations or moments where Nature and life have suddenly enriched him with the long-awaited fulfilment of his fondest dream?
In such situations can he take all the credit himself for this fulfilment with the justification that it is exclusively his own work, because everyone is the absolute creator of his own fate, and that, as a consequence of this, there cannot be anything to thank for?
The great truths can thus imprison a being's mentality in a very grim mental perspective when they are misunderstood.
And the greater the misunderstanding, the more the being appears to the highly developed researcher as an individual who has gone astray and left the direct road to the eternal light or contact with the laws of experience that is life's culmination of normality.
This derailment into misunderstanding and the resulting more or less abnormal mental attitude to life is all the more dangerous since, as we have just seen, it is based on life's highest, unshakeable, eternal truths.